Yesterday, a week or two into the new year, we saw for the first time BBC Alba's Hogmanay Television Broadcast of 2025 courtesy of a chip an old friend sent us. Frankly, we hadn't expected very much, perhaps because of Alba's dire Hogmanay Television Broadcast of 2024 or whatever but, as it happens, we were pleasantly surprised that this year's event was a greatly improved show all-round.
Superstar singer and West Highland beauty, Ellen MacDonald, along with fellow musicians of Gaelic supergroup Daimh, gave a truly memorable performance well into the night and they are our nomination for very best act of the show. Up-and-coming singing star Emma Scalpaigh Macleod had a brilliant night also and, no doubt, we will see a lot more of Emma and her delightful, super-strength personality in the future.
We remain unconvinced about the presenters, however. As with 2024, we still see them as chatterbox-style presenters and lacking the gravitas that the first broadcast of the year demands. Their style of presenting is much more suited to Rock Festivals and the like than hardcore New Year television broadcasts.
Let's hope for continuing improvement - but no more Robert Burns, please. The BBC should know that Burns's scribblings never fit well into West Highland Gaelic settings. He was, after all, a Lowland Scot (Gall) to his fingerprints.
We prefer our very own Gaelic prose.
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